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Looking Back and Looking Forward

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This chapter summarizes my journey and provides a re-visitation of the significance of this book that was presented at the beginning book. Specifically, this chapter will “look back” to the originating narrative inquiry to discuss why I explored this puzzle and how and what I accomplished through a summary of each chapter.

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Eng, B.C. (2021). Looking Back and Looking Forward. In: Personal Narratives of Teacher Knowledge. Intercultural Reciprocal Learning in Chinese and Western Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82032-9_9

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